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...Mary he carried as many as 15,000 U.S. soldiers at a clip through the Atlantic's sub-infested waters, ferried Winston Churchill to rendezvous with President Franklin D. Roosevelt-enough adventure for another volume. When Cambridge University gave him an LL.D., its orator called him "navigatorum principem, tempestatum hostiumque irrisorem" -prince of navigators and scorner of danger, from both storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lee Rail Under | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

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